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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lose no word of protest ever came from the players themselves. If defeat crowned their efforts in place of victory, it was their fault and the fault of Harvard. They knew better than the outside world the man for whom they were staking Harvard's football reputation. Such confidence is the greatest tribute that a coach can receive. It is of the stuff which raises lost hopes and sends a team against Yale which will not be beaten...
...next few years, the games word played in Boston, New Haven and New York; then, in 1889, Springfield was made the authorized battle ground and the two colleges journeyed out along the post road to meet each other half way on neutral territory. Football was finally beginning to take on a modern aspect with a genuine differentiation between backfield and line. Scouting was not yet a business and sometimes chose picturesque methods. Some enterprising Yale men were wont to observe Harvard's secret practice on Soldiers Field from the Mount Auburn Cemetery tower, until Major Henry Lee Higginson was apprised...
Later he referred to W. O. McGeehan, New York columnist, and immediately the cheering turned to boos and hisses. The speaker set the crowd cheering again, however, by crying: "We'll send word to New York tonight that we wouldn't swap our backfield for what's supposed to be the best backfield in the country. We wouldn't swap our ends. Bradford and Sayles, for Calvin Coolidge and the Secretary of State. We wouldn't swap our line for a French liner with all on board sailing east beyond the three-mile limit. And we wouldn't swap...
...public mass meetings, if the World Court is a political issue, as it seems to be, that is all right. In the colleges it is all wrong. College students should be kept free of mass meetings and propaganda on this question. It should remain an academic question--mark the word...
...quite Wrong; his life does Not depend on it. Only his Supper Bills would suffer, if he were never to dance Another Step. As matters now stand, I suppose that only the Daughters will suffer. Their Mothers think he dances Divinely and won't hear a Word against him. He is the Only man on the floor who can Waltz...